Broken

[Verse 1]
Try to focus on my school work
Why is it so hard just to do work?
All the other kids seem to get it, get each other
But the rules that they all follow never called me as a number
Try to hide another blunder, go to sleep but never slumber
Turn into a clown, so when they laugh I can recover
But I wonder if the doctor is correct that I am damaged
Or my parents are correct in saying therapy's a bandage
But what is the root of the issue?
Nose is running, so why skip the tissue?
I wanna go ahead and treat the disease
But the symptoms are more than my heart can appease
Starting up chaos so attention will follow
'Cause if I behave normal, I'm ignored and feel hollow
Who I am inside has no empathy for them
I keep a gun up to my head in case I snap upon a whim

[Chorus]
He's broken, watch him jokin'
Never to recover from the words he's spoken
Don't leave him alone, he's cancer
Showing all the red flags without any answers

[Verse 2]
Everyone's concerned for my health
Well, not for me, but for their personal wealth
I scream a lot and chase my brother with a knife
I black out but when I see there's still no light
I really wish I was like everybody else
It's all my fault, I cause these problems for myself
I keep staring at the dirt inside my room
Wonder when I'll be the dust of other people's gloom
Troubled child daily, it's not coming mild
Constantly reminded I'm a special kind of vile
First I tried denial, but the evidence still piles
Every person that I meet convicts me guilty without trial
I want to be accepted and I care what people think
I hate that I'm rejected, washing tears in dirty sinks
But still I'm keeping silent as I'm pushed beyond the brink
Hopeless before all this turned to things I rarely speak

[Chorus]
He's broken, watch him jokin'
Never to recover from the words he's spoken
Don't leave him alone, he's cancer
Showing all the red flags without any answers

[Verse 3]
Flashback to some years before
I was still a mess, knocking on Hell's door
But my family didn't fear me like they do today
This is the part of the story that I barely say
A darkened past, it's the first foray
Into the depths of the quakes of my mind's dismay
I guess the only thing that I can do is say
What happened once upon a loser when we were alone that day
They tell you to never trust a stranger
But the people that you know should not present a danger
An adult touching a child is sure to cause some anger
But the counsellor I told said it was I who waivered
Just a decade older so I must have liked it
Even though I said "No", my curiosity spiked it
She was pretty, so if anything, then I had planned it
A troublesome child in need of reprimanding
Thanks for the therapy and understanding

[Chorus] (x2)
He's broken, watch him jokin'
Never to recover from the words he's spoken
Don't leave him alone, he's cancer
Showing all the red flags without any answers